163. she died in the year 1627. In June.
On July 1 Donne preached her Funeral Sermon.
See ante, p. 139. When it was published
(London, 1627, 12mo) Herbert appended to it the Greek
and Latin poems to her memory, entitled Parentalia;
these were the chief verses he published in his lifetime.

165. three months after this marriage. It took
place at Edington on 5th March 1629.

167. canonical clothes. This, as Dr. Grosart
says, shows that he “was still a layman.”

167. Parsonage of Bemerton. In the presentation
in the Record Office, which is dated 16th April 1630,
ten days before his induction, it is styled “Rectory
of the parish church of Fulston (Fuggleston) St. Peter’s
and Bemerton.”

175. “The Country Parson.” For
further particulars see p. 212. Of the simplicity
of this beautiful little book Canon Ainger has well
said, “Not for the first or last time in our
literature was it to be shown that the euphuistic
tendency is killed when the writer begins to think
more of his topic than himself” (Craik’s
English Prose, ii. (1894), 204).